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Researchers Infectious Diseases
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Janneke Heijne
Janneke Heijne is head of the research and prevention development team within the infectious diseases department. Her research combines different disciplines to enhance infectious disease control.
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Manja van Wissen
Supports research projects, specifically coordinates matters regarding METC applications, agreements, and privacy.
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Kirsten Bisschops
My project concerns infodemic readiness via social listening. Through this, GGD Amsterdam aims to obtain and report insights in themes that influence the trust and acceptance of the measles vaccine in 2024. The implementation of social listening as a method will allow for a better understanding of people’s information needs and mis- and disinformation surrounding the measles vaccination.
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Inge Willemstein
Inge Willemstein works as a PhD student at the Public Health Service of Amsterdam (GGD) since April 2024. Here, her research focuses on HIV PrEP evaluation and innovation.
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Maarten Schim van der Loeff
Maarten F. Schim van der Loeff is a public health physician and epidemiologist. He is a full professor in the epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections at Amsterdam University Medical Center and the University of Amsterdam. His research is focused on the epidemiology of Human Papillomavirus and other sexually transmitted infections, and on pre-exposition prophylaxis to prevent HIV infections. He is currently supervising 10 PhD students.
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Elske Hoornenborg
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Udi Davidovich
Udi leads the psychosocial research line in the department. Since 1998, Udi concentrated on the study of HIV and STI related sexual risk among different key populations and the translation of these findings into the development of prevention strategies, both nationally and abroad. In more recent years, Udi also holds a position in the department of Social Psychology in the University of Amsterdam and broadened the scope of his research to other infectious diseases. Udi is also specialized in the usage of new technologies for the development and evaluation of prevention interventions for infectious diseases.
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Anders Boyd
As a statistician, I describe data through the application of various modeling techniques. My research has focused in mostly the virological and clinical aspects of chronic viral infections, such as HIV and hepatitis B, C and D viruses. Other facets of my work include preventing these viral infections though biomedical and psychosocial interventions.
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Nienke (C.J.) Alberts
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Researcher, Department of Infectious Diseases, GGD Amsterdam;
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Data Science (EDS), Amsterdam UMC;
Visiting Scientist, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization (WHO)
Nienke (Catharina Johanna) Alberts is a passionate epidemiologist in the field of infectious diseases and cancer with the aim to decrease inequalities in health. Amongst other projects, she works on Cancer RADAR (a project to map the cancer risk of infection-related and screening preventable cancers among individuals with a migration background in Europe), the HPV4M study (HPV vaccine effectiveness study in men who have sex with men), and she provides scientific support to the Working Group on Infections for the European Code Against Cancer (ECAC5). -
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Daniel Franken
In the NOOD study, we investigate the behavior of travelers to moderate endemic malaria areas regarding the choices of malaria prevention and the use of Standby Emergency Treatment (SBET) for malaria, while evaluating the national LCR policy. In the Prik study, we investigate the risk assessment for transmission of hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and HIV following a needlestick injury according to the current LCI guidelines.
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Maeve Grifhorst
In the context of pandemic preparedness, antibiotic resistance will be investigated in different populations. For this, among other things, a Next-Generation Sequencing platform will be developed. This technique is new at the public health institute GGD Amsterdam and will help us to rapidly detect antibiotic resistance in upcoming infectious diseases.
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Laura Del Grande
In my work I perform examinations on the participants such as Spirometry, ECG, frailty test, questionnaires, blood pressure, height, weight, grip strength measurement, blood collection, blood tests in the lab. I plan the participants, enter the results of the research into the database, feed back results, and keep track of the administration. At HPV4M I monitor the processes and approach potential participants. Project HIV to zero: I recruit general practitioners for the project, maintain contact and participate in outreach activities.
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Marije Groot Bruinderink
My research focuses on the implementation of PrEP, the HIV prevention pill. The EZI-PrEP study investigates whether 2 PrEP check-up visits per year are enough for good PrEP intake. We are also investigating whether these check-ups can take place via an online route. The EZI-PrEP study is a collaboration between the 4 Centers for Sexual Health of the GGD Amsterdam, GGD Rotterdam-Rijnmond, GGD Haaglanden and GGD Gelderland-Zuid, and Soa Aids Nederland.
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Ertan Ersan
As a Data Manager at the Department of Infectious Diseases of the GGD Amsterdam, I am responsible for managing data and ensuring a good and high-quality error-free data flow by:
- Designing, implementing, and maintaining data management systems.
- Ensuring the security and integrity of the data.
- Drafting data management plans and labels/meta-data.
- Monitoring the quality of the data and taking steps to improve it.
- Developing surveys and applications suitable for the database for new research.
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Samantha de Graaf
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Inger Valks
Like many, I ended up at the GGD through Team Corona. I currently work there as a source and contact tracer in the infectious diseases department. Besides that, I am, together with a small group of colleagues, working on a study on the impact of scabies on adolescents who visit the scabies clinic of GGD Amsterdam. This combination of my regular work in the department and doing research forms a pleasant change.
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Merve Spronk
I am a researcher with experience in primary care and epidemiology, studying inequalities in infection prevention among diverse ethnic groups. Through my work, I aim to identify inequalities and develop targeted interventions to promote equitable health outcomes.
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Ellen Generaal
Ellen is working as a Postdoctoral researcher for Team Research and Prevention at the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Public Health Service of Amsterdam. Her main research focus is prevention of hepatitis B en C.
She is secretary of the Academic Collaboration Het Sarphati Initiatief (sarphati.nl) and program coordinator for the Consortium of Public Health Collaborative Academic practice for Public health Infectious diseases (CAPI; (capi-consortium.nl) ) -
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Sophie Campman
Tijdens mijn promotietraject doe ik vooral onderzoek naar SARS-CoV-2 vaccinatie en testen onder mensen met een migratieachtergrond. Hiervoor gebruik ik data van het populatie gebaseerde, multi-etnische HELIUS cohort. Daarnaast ben ik betrokken bij een aantal andere COVID-19-gerelateerde projecten.
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Vita Jongen
My main research focus is HIV and STI prevention, as well as transmission of both. Additionally, I focus on policies surrounding STI screening.
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Lotte Werner
As junior researcher I work on research in the field of sexual health, primarily about STIs and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
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Jizzo Bosdriesz
Dr. Jizzo Bosdriesz is an Epidemiologist, working at the Public Health Service of Amsterdam, department of Infectious Diseases. He is involved in research on COVID-19, source and contact tracing, pandemic preparedness, and tuberculosis. In addition, he is the internship coordinator for the team Research and Prevention Development. Next to this, he is also attached to the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) as a Regional Epidemiology Consultant, for the region of North-Holland and Flevoland.
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Kris Hage
Kris started her PhD in May 2021 to study the epidemiology, prevention, and trends in HCV-related behavior among people with HIV. Additionally, she is the coordinator of the ICECREAM study, a study that evaluates whether two innovative interventions, alone or in combination, can positively influence behaviors associated with HCV and ultimately reduce incident HCV reinfection and ongoing HCV transmission.
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Maaike Soors d'Ancona
Conducts research among MSM population on substance use, PrEP and mental wellbeing. Data management for the Amsterdam Cohort Studies (ACS), EZI-PrEP and HPV4M.
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Marjolein Booij
Supports research projects, coordinates in particular medical ethics submissions, contracts and privacy business like Data Impact Assessments.
ORCID ID: 0009-0003-4201-155X
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Buhari Teker
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Liën van Ooijen
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Nikki Adriaens
As a PhD-student at the laboratory of the Public Health Service of Amsterdam, I am trying to unravel the association between genotypic and phenotypic antibiotic resistance in Mycoplasma genitalium. I predominantly work with lab techniques such as Sanger sequencing and in vitro cell cultures.
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Sonia Boender
Sonia Boender is gezondheidswetenschapper & toegepast epidemioloog infectieziekten, die epidemieën en infodemie bestudeert. Als infodemie manager slaat ze een brug tussen infectieziektepreventie, (uitbraak)bestrijding en communicatie.
Haar belangrijkste onderwerpen zijn: Soa/HIV, COVID-19, vaccinatie, gezondheids(mis)informatie.ORCID (incl. full list of publications): Sonia Boender
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Maarten de Jong
Maarten works on epidemiological issues and his PhD research which focuses on the use of sewage water monitoring to detect infectious disease outbreaks. He does this in both high-resource settings (Amsterdam region) and in low-resource settings (e.g. refugee camps): this way he bridges the gap between public health settings of GGD Amsterdam and Doctors Without Borders, for which he regularly works abroad.
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Hester Coppoolse
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Jelle Koopsen
Dr. Jelle Koopsen onderzoekt de kenmerken van epidemieën om volksgezondheidsbeleid te informeren. Hij kwam in oktober 2022 als postdoc bij de GGD Amsterdam nadat hij was gepromoveerd op de genomische epidemiologie van hepatitis C-virus en SARS-CoV-2. Hij is nu Coördinator Genomic Pathogen Surveillance & Epidemiology bij het Streeklaboratorium, waar zijn werk zich richt op het integreren van genomische data in infectieziektesurveillance en -bestrijding, met de nadruk op regionale samenwerking.
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Editor
Maria Oud